Apple announces new iPad Pro and Macbook Air, Sony reveals PS5 specs, and confusion around the coronavirus testing website

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Nilay, Dieter, and Paul discuss the new iPad Pro and Macbook Air that Apple announced this week, the confusion around Google's coronavirus testing website, and the specs revealed for the PS5. Stories discussed this week: Comcast modestly raises slow internet speeds for low-income users because of coronavirus AT&T is suspending broadband data caps for home internet customers due to coronavirus AT&T, Comcast, Verizon and others agree not to overcharge customers during coronavirus Verily’s coronavirus screening website launches with very limited access Trump’s Google testing announcement mixed up several real projects The White House still can’t explain what’s going on with the coronavirus screening website Coronavirus testing shouldn’t be this complicated Apple announces online-only WWDC 2020 due to coronavirus spread Apple announces new iPad Pro with trackpad support and a wild keyboard cover iPadOS 13.4 adds full mouse and trackpad support The iPad Pro is ready to supplant the Mac just as the MacBook Air is great again Logitech’s iPad keyboard case with trackpad costs half as much as Apple’s The new iPad Pro’s LIDAR sensor is an AR hardware solution in search of software The new iPad Pro’s LIDAR scanner can turn a living room into an AR game of Hot Lava You can try the iPad’s new trackpad and mouse support right now with Apple’s public beta Apple announces new MacBook Air with improved keyboard, faster performance, and more storage Moog and Korg are offering synth apps for free while we’re all stuck at home PS5 vs. Xbox Series X: a complicated battle of SSD and GPU speeds Sony says the PlayStation 5’s SSD will completely change next-gen level design The Xbox Series X specs look impressive, but that’s not enough Here’s how Xbox Series X removable storage will work Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This week on The Vertchcast, we talk about that Google website that Trump was talking about.
0:03.4	We go into Apple's new iPad Pro and MacBook Air, and we get deep into the weeds of the PS5
0:08.5	in Xbox Series X. Let's come up on The Vertchcast now.
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1:26.0	Hello and welcome to Verge Cast, the flagship podcast is Staying Inside.
1:35.2	Just Stay Inside. I'm Neely, I'm your friend, Dieter Bone is here. I'm your friend too,
1:39.9	but we should all be friends this week. Just distant friends, distant, distant friends,
1:44.2	Paul Miller's, Paul Dieter's in a, you're in your closet recording. I am.
1:48.0	Paul, are you also in a closet? I've been the living room of my sister's apartment.
1:53.2	That's nice. I'm in a bedroom that I have somehow arranged into a podcast studio, which is better
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